Whispers of the Hollow

Whispers of the Hollow
The Rabbit Chronicles - Book One

Wickham Hollow is a place where nothing ever seems to go wrong.

The river runs gently through the meadow. The burrows are warm. The forest behaves. It’s the kind of valley that teaches you to stop watching.

Thorn is the one rabbit who doesn’t.

When he begins to notice small changes-the river running low, flowers tightening their petals, strange marks carved where they don’t belong-he realizes the Hollow’s peace may not be as secure as everyone believes. Alongside Mira, a sharp-tongued crow with a talent for seeing what others miss, Thorn follows the signs beyond the safety of home and into parts of the forest that remember older dangers.

There, they uncover something far more unsettling than a simple threat: artifacts that whisper, doors that should never have been opened, and a presence that doesn’t force its way into the world-but waits patiently for someone to listen.

As Thorn is drawn toward the Heartstone, a relic meant not to destroy but to sever what should never have been joined, he learns that evil doesn’t always arrive as violence. Sometimes it arrives as reassurance. As comfort. As the promise that nothing will ever hurt again.

But some forms of protection come at too high a cost.

Whispers of the Hollow is a quiet, atmospheric fantasy about attention, responsibility, and the courage to say no-perfect for readers who love thoughtful worldbuilding, morally grounded magic, and stories where the smallest voices notice the most important things.